Views on an object oriented software engineering environment

Kobialka, Hans-Ulrich; Meyke, C.

doi:10.1109/case.1993.635101

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“…The design system must allow the designer to monitor progress of the complete task and structure his own work according to his needs. Software engineering environments like ADDD [6] support services like this. Design management also deals with assistance in design flow issues and project management.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A User Model Supporting Communication in High-Level Design Systems

Rockenberg¹,

Heymann²,

Westerholz³

1995

Electronic Design Automation Frameworks

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Today's high-level synthesis systems provide means to solve complex design problems but leave the user alone with an increasing number of difficult design decisions. We introduce a user model derived from requirements resulting from discussions with users and examination of existing systems. An implementation of this user model based on an existing high-level synthesis environment is sketched. IntroductionCurrent frameworks and design systems administrate team work by providing intricate access and concurrency control mechanisms. In these models, the user is seen as an isolated person communicating with others exclusively through the use of common design objects. This view does prevent data collisions but it does not support human interaction in a working environment. Experience shows that good communication in a design team, the sharing of knowledge and results, increases work efficiency but on the other hand, people tend to work out a problem for themselves instead of asking a colleague who might already have found a solution. It follows that a design environment which takes user communication into account should provide means to share and distribute user experience within the system. This becomes increasingly important in high-level synthesis systems that require a lot of user interaction and expert knowledge in optimization steps. We propose a user model introducing the concept of virtual roles to satisfy the need for communication between users in design frameworks. Our model is based on a small design team of up to eight people. Many state-of-the-art synthesis environments are tailored for single-user utilization, assuming a user that is well versed in all aspects of design. This is unrealistic -it is more likely that several people will pool their knowledge to achieve a design goal. On the other

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is followed by a definition of basic concepts for our work. Section 5 describes our sample system and the scenario from which we derive the requirements for our user model in section 6. A first implementation is presented in section 7.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A User Model Supporting Communication in High-Level Design Systems

Rockenberg¹,

Heymann²,

Westerholz³

1995

Electronic Design Automation Frameworks

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“…This is evidenced by the change of focus in CFI. A framework [9] [14] [15] [16] controls the design tools, encapsulates tool operations, manages access to design databases, etc. Examples range from "traditional" version management tools like RCS, CVS, to tools for design information management, like Nelsis [10], JCF [17], etc.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%